[IO Islamic 1533] قصّۀ مهر و ماه
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- Ḳiṣṣ-i-Mihr u Mâh.
- This manuscript is now IO Islamic 805 in the India Office collections.
- [metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 1533 here with notations and hyperlinks].
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Ḳiṣṣ-i-Mihr u Mâh (قصّۀ مهر و ماه).
A Persian romance, styled, ‘sun and moon,’ or the love-story of prince Mihr, son of Khâwarshâh and princess Mâh, beginning: الحمد لله ربّ العالمين ..... روايت ميكند در ديارى (ديار read) مشرق و پادشاهی بود نام او خاورشاه الخ.
See other copies of the same story in the Bodleian Cat., No. 1241, I, in Rieu ii. p. 765, and in Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 410, comp. also Garcin de Tassy, Histoire de la littérature Hindouie etc., 2nd ed., ii. p. 550, where several Hindûstânî mathnawîs, written on the same subject, are noticed.
Dated the 29th of Rajab in the nineteenth year of ( جلوس والا, probably ‘Âlamgîr’s reign, which would be A.H. 1087=A.D. 1676, Oct. 7).
No. 1533, ff. 73, ll. 15; size, 103/8 in. by 53/4 in.
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